Miss Farr has inspired me to put up another C.S. Lewis quote I read in a Bible Study a couple weeks ago. It is a passage from his "Weight of Glory".
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, it at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations."
There's more, but I'll stop there for now.
Any thoughts on that view of humanity????
Thanks Lizz :) So I'm interpreting this as if we are all either headed to heaven or hell, where we will still have the same souls but will be a new creation-either as a perfect and godly version of our human selves, or as a reflection of sin, suffering, and ugliness that could only be possible if we rejected God's offer of grace to us in this life. This encourages me to try to see people as God sees them-no matter how messed up they seem on the outside, God created them and loves them infinitely, no matter what! We need to make the most of any opportunity we have to extend love to everyone we meet, even if we are met with opposition. It's worth any small cost we might have to pay now-ridicule, persecution, or any other worldly judgment. This is just my interpretation, which maybe is different than what C.S. Lewis meant...I wish there would be a "message" version of his writings!
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